Saturday, January 3, 2009

New York's Sinking Vote

1. 337,110 more New Yorkers voted in 2004 than 20082. New York Ranked 42 of 50 in Voting Age Turnout 50.7% 20083. In 1944 NY had 6,291,885 votes president and 47 Electoral votes4. Florida had 482,592 votes for president and 8 Electoral votes5. In 2008 Florida had 1,204,479 more votes for president than NY6. In 1944 New York had 3,423,467 more votes than California7. In 2008 California had 6,291,885 more votes than NY8. In 1944 New York cast 13.1% of the Nations vote9. In 2008 New York cast 5.5% of the Nations vote

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Good, lets down zone some more. Has NYC City Planing got an R-Zero zone, yet, with a floor area ratio of minus eleven? Maybe will the help of the Crapper and the NIMBY community boards, New York can look like that Will Smith movie, "I am legend". Hey you never know.

Wait a sec, I thought this is what the Crapper and all you NIMBYS want??

Don't you guys want to freeze all growth and development and take the whole region back to the Dark Ages?? I thought that was the whole point of this website!

All I hear is on this website is that ANY new building is "too big", "too dense" or whatever B.S., and now you complain that we don't have enough voters??

I thought you guys hate all the new immigrants and newcomers to the city, and detest any building. Even if the building is three floors tall, it's described as a "hulking monstrosity", as if it's a 70-floor tower or something. Even if the newcomer is a legal, working, contributing member of society, the Queens Crap posters will describle the individuals as "Third World Illegals" or other such garbage...

The fact is that if you want growth, you have to allow development, and I mean lots more than is currently allowed. Same thing goes with immigration. If you want growth, we need MORE immigration, and MORE development. Facts are facts.

Kevin - Even if you had voter turnout other states are growing and the rust belt / new england states are shrinking. From my distant view of NYC politics I can understand why the turnout is low. Perhaps it's time for leadership. Just a note on military bases, why do you mention alaska? They get relatively low miltary dollars. Think Norfolk VA or San Diego CA for big $$s. Also, military dollars are not just about bases. It's about R&D and production facilities. MA has virtually no bases, but it gets big $$s due to Raytheon headquarters here. It's why Kennedy and Kerry did what they could to close bases to appeal to the libs, but at the same time increased spending for development and production facilities in MA. In other words MA got the money, but just through the back door.

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